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But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry?

“How he went into the house of God, and ate the showbread (which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests)?

“Or have you not read in the Law how that, on the Sabbath days, the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are blameless?

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He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?(A) He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.(B) Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath(C) and yet are innocent?

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